And have you ever had the kratom "wobbles" before?

  • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I was on subs for about a year and this asshole nurse woman cut me off because I missed a couple of appointments.

    Cut me off cold turkey dude while I was in the middle of withdrawal. Fuck that woman, soured me on ever getting on subs again.

    Literally told me to go to detox and just grab a blanket pretty much and white knuckle it.

    • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]
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      4 months ago

      Fuck. That. So. Much. I started to taper pretty much as soon as I got on subs because I was so worried about getting cut off. It took me 9 months of being sick every single day and a week of regular ass H style withdraw once I jumped off. They call subs and methadone chemical handcuffs for a reason.

    • cosecantphi [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Fuck, that's really awful, sorry this happened to you. Like, this shit is patient abandonment. It really should be illegal to kick people off maintenance opioids without VERY good reason. Bupe withdrawals are torturous, often worse than the withdrawals you get from full agonists because they last so long. That kind of reckless abandon with people's treatment can easily result in relapse and fatal overdose.

      • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Right I could understand if she had evidence I was not taking my medication and selling it on the streets. That's fair, I relapsed once even and the previous nurse just kind of warned me we would have to look at another route, if it kept happening.

        She didn't fucking cut me off cold turkey though.

        Thinking about it, I still get pissed off. Nothing I can do now though.

        Basically it's why I take kratom now. To keep opioid cravings at bay, because the nurse at the local health center did that to me.